Professor Peter Marshall

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I was born and raised in the Orkney Islands, and educated at Kirkwall Grammar School and University College, Oxford. Before being appointed to a lectureship at Warwick in 1994, I taught history for some years at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. At Warwick, I became Senior Lecturer in 2001, Reader in 2004, and Professor in 2006. Beyond the university I have been a PhD examiner at the universities of Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, De Montfort, Exeter, Leeds, London, Melbourne, Oxford, Paris, Reading, St Andrews, Sussex and York, and an examiner of taught degrees at the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Oxford, Kent, Lancaster and St Andrews. Other roles include past service as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, as a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, on the Committee of the Ecclesiastical History Society, and the Council of the Sixteenth Century Studies Society. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Irish Research Council's International Advisory Board, and of the Council and the Editorial Committee of the Dugdale Society. I was also a founding editor of the monograph series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, published by Routledge. I am a co-editor (articles) of The English Historical Review﻿, and sit on the editorial boards of Sixteenth Century Journal and British Catholic History. I am a regular book-reviewer for various periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement,The Tablet and The Literary Review.

Research Supervision

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD students in the field of early modern British religious and cultural history. Past and current topics of my doctoral students are: 'The Political Career of Thomas Wriothesley 1505-1550'; 'Commotion Time: the English Risings of 1549'; 'The Compendium Compertorum and the Making of the First Suppression Act'; 'Shakespeare in Purgatory: A Study of the Catholicising Movement in Shakespeare Biography'; 'Aspects of Grief in Early Modern England'; 'The Disenchantment of the World? English Ghost Beliefs 1660-1760'; 'Worship and the Senses in England, 1480-1580'; 'The Career of Arthur Hildersham, Puritan Minister'; 'Angels in English Religious Cultures 1500-1700'; 'Music and Religious Identity in Elizabethan England'; 'The Reformation in Cheshire, 1500-1570'; 'Musicians and Social Status in mid- and late-Tudor England'; 'Faith and Fraternity: The London Livery Companies and the Reformation c.1530-1600'; 'Reimagining the Virgin Mary in Reformation England'; 'Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England'; 'The Early Reformation in Northamptonshire'; 'English Evangelical Theologies of Penance, 1520-1553'; 'The Palatinate of Durham and the Tudor State'; 'Holy Mind, Holy Body in 16th Century English Female Sanctity'; 'Representations of St George in Early Modern England', 'Discourses of Toleration in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England'; 'Elizabeth I, Counsel and Memory in Early Modern England'

‘Confessionalization and Community in the Burial of English Catholics, c. 1570-1700’, in N. Lewycky and A. Morton (eds), Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England (Farnham, 2012)

‘Ann Jeffries and the Fairies: Folk Belief and the War on Scepticism in Later Stuart England’, in A. McShane and G. Walker (eds), The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England (Basingstoke, 2010)

Faith and Identity in a Warwickshire Family: the Throckmortons and the Reformation, Dugdale Society Occasional Paper No. 49 (2010)

‘Henry VIII and the Modern Historians: The Making of a Twentieth-Century Reputation’, in M. Rankin, C. Highley and J. King (eds), Henry VIII and his Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art (Cambridge, 2009)

‘Crisis of Allegiance: George Throckmorton and Henry Tudor’, in P. Marshall and G. Scott (eds), Catholic Gentry in English Society: The Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to Emancipation (Aldershot, 2009)

‘Protestants and Fairies in Early Modern England’, in S. Dixon, D. Freist and M. Greengrass (eds), Living with Religious Diversity in Early-Modern Europe (Aldershot, 2009)

‘(Re)defining the English Reformation’, Journal of British Studies, 48 (2009)

‘Saints and Cinemas: A Man for All Seasons’, in S. Doran and T. Freeman (eds.), Tudors and Stuarts on Film: Historical Perspectives (Basingstoke, 2009)

‘The Making of the Tudor Judas: Trust and Betrayal in the English Reformation’, Reformation, 13 (2008)

‘Betrayers and Betrayal in the Age of William Tyndale’, The Tyndale Society Journal, 34 (2008)

‘“The Greatest Man in Wales:” James ap Gruffydd ap Hywel and the International Opposition to Henry VIII’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 39 (2008)

‘England’, in D. M. Whitford (ed.), Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research (Kirksville, MO, 2008)

‘Religious Exiles and the Tudor State’, in K. Cooper and J. Gregory (eds.), Discipline and Diversity, Studies in Church History, 43 (2007)

‘"The Map of God’s Word": Geographies of the Afterlife in Tudor and Early Stuart England’, in B. Gordon and P. Marshall (eds.), The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2000)

‘Papist as Heretic: the Burning of John Forest 1538’, Historical Journal, 41 (1998)

‘Fear, Purgatory and Polemic in Reformation England’, in W.G. Naphy and P. Roberts (eds), Fear in Early Modern Society (Manchester, 1997)

‘The Debate over "Unwritten Verities" in Early Reformation England’, in B. Gordon (ed.), Protestant Identity and History in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Volume I The Medieval Inheritance (Aldershot, 1996)

‘The Dispersal of Monastic Patronage in East Yorkshire, c. 1520-1580’, in B. Kümin (ed.), Reformations Old and New: Essays on the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change c.1470-1630 (Aldershot, 1996)

‘The Rood of Boxley, the Blood of Hailes and the Defence of the Henrician Church’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 46 (1995)

The Face of the Pastoral Ministry in the East Riding, 1525-1595, Borthwick Paper No. 88 (York, 1995)